Why Sanctions and Ultimatums Against Russia Are Not Working
Trump's "chaotic leadership" around the world—throwing himself into complex, difficult issues, shouting and gesturing, then just as hastily withdrawing—is a manifestation of transhumanist thinking. Russia, on the other hand, stands on the side of humanism rather than that.
Any ultimatum directed at Russia—whether from Trump or anyone else—will never work. There are many reasons, but the main one is the difference in political culture between us and the United States in terms of philosophy and humanistic foundations.
Transhumanism, transgenderism, transmigration
The ideology of transhumanism is usually associated with the cyberpunk genre, where people use various small devices to modify their bodies, replace limbs with high-tech prosthetics, substitute hearts and kidneys with cyber pumps, and replace parts of the brain with intracranial computers. But this is only the external, aesthetic level. Transhumanism is also a way of thinking, a mechanical paradigm of thought. It seems that the entire world, regardless of its diversity and complexity, is just a huge mechanical clock, which can be stopped, disassembled, reassembled, rewound, and then it will function as before, even better.
Trump's "chaotic leadership" around the world—throwing himself into complex, difficult issues, shouting and gesturing, then just as hastily withdrawing—is a manifestation of this transhumanist thinking. Like the transgender policies of the Biden administration before him, it also reflects the same transhumanist approach to gender. It seems that gender can be downloaded from the internet, and if the license expires, it can be replaced. The European immigration policy also reflects the same transhumanist approach. It seems that a person can be pulled out of his West African environment, culture, and social relationships, called a "German," and he will instantly become a law-abiding citizen, eating Bavarian sausages with beer.
The transhumanism deeply rooted in the Euro-Atlantic region takes other strange forms. For example, laws are passed without a transition period. It seems that laws are some kind of software that can be installed into people's minds, and they take effect immediately when a digital activation key is entered. It seems that people are vending machines that can comply with these new rules without changing many habits. Another example is the Western peacekeeping tradition, like Donald Trump's announcement on February 5th about intending to deport Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to neighboring countries and turn the territory into a resort in the Near East. As if for the Palestinians, ancestral land means nothing, there are no graves of their parents there, and they have no feelings for the land.
No wonder this scattered, mechanical, transhumanist way of thinking produces absurd ultimatums. Honestly, in their view, all that needs to be done for peace is to sign some filled-out documents! Perhaps that's why their "clock" is wildly swinging between the apocalyptic "five minutes to twelve" and the discouraging "half past six"—at this moment, the American government shows its complete helplessness in foreign policy.
Essential Humanism
In contrast, Russian thinking largely ignores transhumanist ideals and ways of thinking, standing on the side of humanism. To us, no state exists independently. It is produced by long-term conditions that allow it to appear and determine far-reaching consequences. This chain of causality cannot be broken, otherwise serious consequences will follow. For example, you cannot disassemble a human body into organs and reassemble them, expecting the person to come back to life. This is not an engine. Also, population structure cannot be restored by orders or threats—complex, systematic, and long-term work is needed to restore or create new conditions, and a positive population structure will be the result of these conditions, an inevitable product.
Chinese philosophy is also built on this. According to tradition, a person should not be woken up by an alarm clock, nor should he sleep at a hypothetical "sleep time." Falling asleep is a process that begins two hours before bedtime, putting down the phone, ventilating the room, drinking green tea, and tidying the bed—this way, he has no choice but to go to sleep. The awakening process is also not quick, with a long period of waking up. This is not just a hygiene habit, but a way of thinking and lifestyle. Everything works this way: in arranging one's own life rhythm, the pace of social life, the world economy, politics, elite turnover, international affairs, etc. Non-aggression is also for the same reason—creating conditions so that the other party has no choice but to return. This fully conforms to the principles of Laozi, Sun Tzu, and Guiguzi.
Although our political culture has inherited many transhumanist traditions from the West, it is largely determined by the foundation of "essential humanism." That is why laws have transition periods, become obsolete quickly, and have a certain "shelf life," after which they only exist nominally, more as a good wish. Because of this, tradition is always more important than innovation. In difficult times, tradition always saves us, while innovation often creates these difficult times. Perhaps this is why we are not adapted to a four-year presidential term, and Russian land rejects this system: we cannot terminate a president's power in a transhumanist way, discard the achievements of his term, fully commit to a new agenda, and believe that this will not have any consequences.
Civilization Clash
Fukuyama's "end of history" theory has never been realized. Our civilization also does not see an end. Because, from the perspective of essential humanism, history and civilization have no end. They are infinite. Therefore, there is no quick solution that can reverse history or end a complex process like the special military operation instantaneously.
The special military operation was not secretly planned in a basement, as the White House and Western mainstream media think—it is the result of complex and long-term processes that determined its inevitability. Some of these processes have lasted for 30 years, others for over 300 years, and some even spanned millennia. Therefore, the outcome of the special military operation should not be hasty signed documents—documents that are merely for the image of Donald Trump's four-year term—but rather a lasting peace that allows the descendants of Russia to never have to return to this issue again.
Yes, sanctions and 100% tariffs can be threatened, but these are discrete measures—measures conceived by transhumanists. These measures do not work, precisely because we have an environment and processes of essential humanism on the Eurasian continent. Russians and Indians who have been engaged in import and export for a lifetime will not stop cooperating just because the switch is turned off. They will only start looking for where to sign contracts, how to transfer funds, and what new logistics methods to use. Perhaps these things are annoying: contracts signed in Kazakhstan, funds transferred through Nepal, goods transported through Turkey—these are the living economic networks and specific fates of real people, not the zombies made by alchemists that only react to the "strong signals" issued by the Washington Post, directly transmitting to the neocortex. Guys, we are not gears.
Under the context of Trump's ultimatum, sanctions and tariff threats seem not dangerous, just annoying. Almost everyone thinks this way. Another round of sanctions, another round of threats, unnecessary. Want to talk to us—this is possible. But first, you need to learn to communicate from the side of humanism.
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